Ayelet Waldman is a writer of fiction, nonfiction, essays and even television. Her new book, A Perfect Hand, is her first novel in over a decade. The book follows a lady’s maid in nineteenth-century England, who creates her own marriage plot with a servant in another household. Waldman fully credits the idea to her daughter, Sophie Chabon, and the result reads almost like a cross between Jane Austen and Downton Abbey, two of Waldman’s favorites. I recently spoke with Ayelet Waldman about A Perfect Hand, how she conducts her research, and about her love for themes of longing.
A Perfect Hand by Ayelet Waldman was published by Knopf.
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